Unfortunately for the people of the world everything is going according to the New World Order Plan. But what is this New World Order Plan? In a nutshell the Plan is this. The Dark Agenda of the secret planners of the New World Order is to reduce the world's population to a "sustainable" level "in perpetual balance with nature" by a ruthless Population Control Agenda via Population and Reproduction Control. A Mass Culling of the People via Planned Parenthood, toxic adulteration of water and food supplies, release of weaponised man-made viruses, man-made pandemics, mass vaccination campaigns and a planned Third World War. Then, the Dark Agenda will impose upon the drastically reduced world population a global feudal-fascist state with a World Government, World Religion, World Army, World Central Bank, World Currency and a micro-chipped population. In short, to kill 90% of the world's population and to control all aspects of the human condition and thus rule everyone, everywhere from the cradle to the grave.

Although the descent of humanity into the realm of matter is a consequence of the thickening rational faculty eclipsing the ancient picture consciousness, which was a possession of our ancestors, its ultimate cause is the separation of humanity from the Divine. This was symbolised by the "Fall" from Paradise told in the Book of Genesis contained in the story of the Garden of Eden when the First Couple was expelled from the Garden for their temerity to be like God. This was precipitated by the machinations of Lucifer who persuaded Adam to taste the Forbidden Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.

This knowledge of "Self" brought free will to humanity but also allowed the possibility of error and thereby upraised the Problem of Evil in Creation. The separation of Man from the Divine was accelerated by the machinations of Lucifer and another dark spiritual being of immense power called in the Bible, Satan, but who is also called Ahriman. These are the Two Dark Gods who are the Dual Faces of Evil that want to subvert natural and moral order and topple God from his own Throne of Creation.

Mankind is the means whereby Creation can be significantly changed and thus is the battleground where the competing spiritual forces operate. Lucifer gave man the possession of free will, while Ahriman gifted him with the rational capacity to apprehend the physical world, contained in "Science," which has provided mankind with a profound understanding of the physical world and huge technological successes, but God gifted to all existence itself.

Ahriman is fated to alter human evolution by manipulating certain forces in Creation and engendering their growth in the soul of men. Ahriman thus influences humanity by certain forces, but conversely there are certain forces through which mankind can arm itself against being deceived and corrupted. The most seductive entrapment is the illusory power of science. Ahriman is the prince of the mechanical sciences. He is the great architect of the materialistic illusion that deludes humanity into perceiving the Nature as a system, that is, a mechanical device. Men of science imbued with this Ahrimanic inspired spirit deluded themselves that in their calculations and formulae they had found the ultimate truth. Wonderful and productive these theories are, some supported by subtle and skilful disputations; they are paraded by their adherents as evidence of man's final grasp of reality, which they are not. This flaunting of science embarrassed organised religion into silence that secretly felt discredited by science's success.

Today, mankind gazes up to the heavens and sees nothing more that moving planets, fixed stars, exploding novae and streams of high-energy particles and electromagnetic radiation and so on. He gazes at them with the eyes of a dogmatist, analyses them with higher mathematics and produces Grand Theories of increasing sophistication by which the sublime exoteric manifestation of Creation is described, wholly deficiently, mechanically. This mechanised conception of the universe is the antithesis of the ancient world's imagining of the Cosmos. The people of antiquity knew that the forces, which he saw in the heavens, worked into his being as man, and because of this knowledge, he felt himself a part of the whole cosmos. This knowledge of the macrocosm, the universe, working in the microcosm, mankind, is contained in the hermetic formula, "As above, so below."

Thus, there is a fundamental difference in the psyche of the savant of antiquity, such as Plato, and that of the Baroque genius, such as Newton. The difference is due to a spirit that penetrates human understanding and consciousness and concentrates the intellect into considering the universe as nothing more than a great mechanism. In short, there is a great difference in the perception of the Cosmos between the man of antiquity, and the man at the close of the Middle Ages. The former perceived with the eyes of one whom understood himself to be a part of the seamless whole, the latter with the eyes of the savant that that merely saw matter in motion.

Ahriman thus encouraged the alienation of mankind from God by insidiously trapping him in the realm of matter by gifting him materialism whose fruits are the technological wonders of the modern world. And by the apparent success of Science convince humanity that the world of sense is the Cosmos itself. Consequently Man has been left floundering in the miasma of materialism that is compounded by the agnosticism provide in spades by atheistic moral philosophers and scientists. The result is the alienation of mankind from what the ancient's called the greater reality and what the religious call the spiritual: it is also known as the Macrocosm. Yet, knowledge of the greater reality, the Macrocosm, which is Objective Reality, was readily available to our ancestors because they possessed the picture consciousness that allowed them to apprehend parts of this Whole.

Primitive man was more aware of the spirit world than the phenomenal world in which he subsisted. That is, he was more aware of the divine beings, his 'gods,' themselves than physical objects placed before him. Mankind was possessed of a picture consciousness that generated images of the spiritual realities that lie behind the phenomenal world without recourse to mentation. A modern parallel would be the dim perceptions and memories arising from a lucid dream. An example of how this ancient picture consciousness operated is its apprehension of the night sky. Where modern minds simply see points of light in pretty patterns these very same light structures lit up vivid pictures in the ancient mind: it was such images that were later carved in stone by the gothic Craftmasons on the portals of the great medieval cathedrals of Europe. These images are the mythological constellations of the zodiac that today are perceived as primitive fancy.

Scientists ask how: the pious ask how and why. This search to understand the meaning and relevance of life is the real link between man and the macrocosm, the world of manifestation. But the method of establishing substantive truths about the true meaning of existence can only be provided by employing a method of interpretation that is diametrically opposed to the Western construction called the Scientific Method. This alternative method is called the Esoteric Way or the Secret Doctrine by occultists. These two alternatives can be compared thus:

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

ESOTERIC WISDOM

Functional-Systematic

Social

Universality of Knowledge

Transferable Knowledge

Learned, Assimilated

Knowledge for All

"Believers"

Non-Functional-Non-Systematic

Asocial

Individual Revelation

Non-Transferable Knowledge

Highly Personal Individual Insights

Wisdom to The Few

"Knowers"

True knowledge can only come from personal experience; it can neither be taken over, nor assimilated nor transmitted. Science is merely a community of believers who devour the breadcrumbs of a few true men of knowledge and regurgitate them in misrepresented forms. In this context, for instance, it should be understood that astronomy is a degraded product of the more ancient art of astrology and chemistry evolved from alchemy. The Hermetic Teachings of the Gnostics that were known to the Early Christians was the echo of an ancient spiritual impulse released on Earth by the incarnation of Lucifer in flesh and blood. Just as the Christ had incarnated in the man Jesus of Nazareth in AD 30, Lucifer, a great spiritual Being of immense power incarnated into a human being, in China sometime at the beginning of the third millennium BC.

This event gifted humanity something of immense brilliance, having an incisive effect, which was, in fact, the primeval wisdom that was later called gnosis. Lucifer and his hosts approached man at this time and man was actually exposed to the influences issuing from Lucifer. This Asiatic, Luciferic human being unleashed a spiritual impulse that affected all of the cultures in the region down to the Ancient Greek civilisation. Moreover, it is this Luciferic wisdom that permeated the consciousness of mankind and that was indeed of great benefit to man in that epoch of evolution. This spiritual impulse was brilliant in a certain way, and graduated according to the different peoples and races among which it penetrated. What Lucifer introduced to mankind was the prospect of freedom, but this knowledge of freedom also exposed man to the possibility of evil-doing, of succumbing to passion and desire in the world of sense. This of course is the source of the Garden of Eden story in Genesis. This faculty of discernment allowed man to realise himself as distinct from his environment so that he might become an independent being. The evolutionary process was arranged that although man was imbued with an independent consciousness concerning the external world, he was still dependent on the Divine Powers, as are puppets on strings. This plan however was subverted by powers that wished to oppose creation.

If Creation had been allowed to run its course unhindered, the Divine Powers would have instilled into the soul the forces, which give man his human countenance and would have made man into an image of the gods. Although mankind would have been moulded into the image of the gods it would be at the cost of an eternal dependence on the Divine Powers. However, the intervention of the Luciferic Beings in the evolutionary plan for mankind caused the plan to be revised, but had they not intervened, man would have remained in a state of innocence and purity in his soul.

In essence, without the Luciferic influence, man would have remained a spiritualised animal, an animal that would gradually have evolved into a far nobler and more beautiful form than could have been developed by man under the influence of Lucifer. The Divine Powers would have influenced the every impulse of man's soul, moulding it according to the original plan of Genesis. The Divine Plan did not happen, because Lucifer approached man, and by his machinations, made part of the underlying spiritual world invisible to man. A veil descended between the spiritual world and the world of sense. This veil cast darkness over the spiritual Beings of the world out of which man is born, and who would otherwise have remained perpetually visible to him. The veil descended because of the personal instincts, passions and desires that arose in the human soul. This was exactly what the Lucifer had planned. The Luciferic Beings schemed to incite the passions, desires, urges of men that would not otherwise have arisen. They debased and intensified these passions so that mankind turned away from his heavenly home and sought to sojourn in the physical realm of earth.

Had humanity not succumbed to the blandishments of Lucifer it would have retained a perpetual longing for its heavenly home, and for the realms of spirit whence it had descended. Crucially, no passions inciting mankind to crave for what is to be found only on earth would have arisen in his soul if Lucifer had stayed his hand. The earthly realm would not have aroused the slightest interest in the souls of men. For it was only through the intervention of the Luciferic Spirits that man came to crave for the impressions of the earth.

If the original Divine Plan for mankind were carried out, his faculties of perception and cognition would not have been directed to the material world until a much later period. No passions, no desires would have arisen from his sense-perceptions and he would have confronted the physical world in a state of innocence; obedient in his every action to the impulses infused into him by the Divine Powers. Man's every deed on earth would have been induce by a kind of spiritual instinct and not by mere impulses caused by passions and sensual urges.

The Divine Plan was to eventually open fully man's eyes so that the entire fabric of the material world of sense would have lain around him, but gazing upon it he would simultaneously have perceived the Divine-Spiritual, and would have seen the Divine-Spiritual world behind every physical object. Man would be wholly dependent on the benign stewardship of the Divine Powers; however, he would also have the developed the faculty enabling him to look back to the source of life, the Divine, from whence he came. He would then behold the Gods of Light sending their radiance into his soul, guiding and leading him. From this heightened illuminated state man could purview the entire world of sense that would have been outspread in transparency before him, revealing behind it those other Divine-Spiritual Beings who had taken the place of what had now been lost. Just as one spiritual world closed behind him a new spiritual world opened before him. However, man would have remained a child in the hands of higher, Divine-Spiritual Beings, and independence would not have been established in the human soul. This then was the Divine plan that the Luciferic Beings prevented when they seduced mankind from his lofty state.

However, this was not the case. Under the influence of Lucifer man came earlier to the stage ordained by God, where he followed his own impulses earlier than would otherwise have been the case. In short, man had become an independent being, with a measure of inner freedom. However, the consequence was that mankind became somewhat detached from the spiritual world. Although man would have remained far more of an angelic being if Lucifer's influence had not taken effect but he would have also been a mere puppet of the higher Beings, which are the Divine Powers. This is the caveat of Creation: left alone, man would have been a beautiful, noble, spiritualised animal yet under the sway of benign higher beings: enticed by Lucifer, he was blessed with self-conscious knowledge of Creation but his descent into error and the world of matter was quickened.

However, the Divine Powers arrested this headlong descent into the material realm and brought mankind back from the spiritual abyss by initiating countermeasures. They infixed into the being of man what would otherwise not have been his lot, which attenuated the Luciferic influence that had inspired humanity to seek everything sensory. The necessary countermeasure to the deeds of the Luciferic Spirits was the introduction into the human field of experience three realities: pain, toil and death. This is the Primal Karma of mankind. These three countermeasures were the mechanism that stopped humanity from totally rejecting the higher spiritual realms and focussing entirely on the phenomenal world of senses. Where the Luciferic Spirits gave man material desires, the Divine Powers introduced illness and suffering as the consequences of material desires and interests, and thereby thwarted humanity's total immersion in the realm of the senses. In short, pain, toil and deathwere introduced as obstacles to the Luciferic Spirits' plan to trap mankind in the physical realm, wholly cut-off from his spiritual heritage.

In antiquity, certain initiates in the great centres of the Sun Oracles resisted this descent into matter. The initiates were trained to behold that part of the spiritual world, which had been concealed as the result of Lucifer's influence. The aim of these guardians and pupils of the ancient Oracles was to retain knowledge of that part of the spiritual world of light denied because of Lucifer's influence upon the soul of man. These Initiates could also perceive the spiritual hierarchies. That is, spiritual figures seen by man in the various conditions of soul flowing parallel with the world of sense, figures which, from a world of Light, penetrate into our world decked in the raiment provided by the astral world. These spirit beings were spiritual Beings of a higher rank than man who had not descended into the physical world, and therefore remained invisible to ordinary sight when man's eyes were opened prematurely by the Luciferian influence.

Yet, Lucifer was an opponent of these worlds of Light, and ceaselessly worked against them. Luciferic entities, but not Lucifer himself, was also visible to the initiates of antiquity. Who in their shadowy, clairvoyant consciousness, in the sleeping state, and in conditions midway between sleeping and waking, could be transported into the spiritual world. Thus, part of the world of Light and part of the world opposing the World of Light was visible to these initiates of antiquity. Manifest to clairvoyant vision was the noble figures belonging to the world of light that were as fascinating and splendid in their astral raiment as those of the opposing world of deception were fearsome and terrible.

This then is the double-edged sword presented to mankind by Lucifer: the capacity to attain freedom and the possibility for man to fall into error and evil. If Lucifer had stayed his hand, the conditions described above would have eventually come about. Then the tapestry of the sense-world would have been outspread before man in a rarefied glory, because it would have been apprehended by him with a spiritual sight gifted to him by the Divine. The mineral, plant and animal kingdoms would have been materially visible to him, as would the phenomena of nature and of the heavens, thunder, lightning, clouds, air, all would have been visible to external sight. The entire physical world would have been cognisable to man without the Luciferic interference, but he would also see the unmistakable presence of Divine-Spiritual Beings behind it all.

However, as described above this did not happen. Lucifer's influence had already taken effect in man's soul, which then moulded the physical body in such a way that it could not become the vehicle by which the physical world of sense and the spiritual world could be simultaneously apprehended. The three lower kingdoms of nature, the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms lay around him and in these, man made his earthly home. Nevertheless, the physical world became a veil over the spiritual world, and man could not, nor can he to this day, see directly into the spiritual world. Consequently, man could not behold the physical sense-world in the form in which it would simultaneously have revealed itself to him as a spiritual world.

Although mankind was confined in the phenomenal world of sense and matter initiates into the mysteries had means whereby the spirit world could be accessed at will. These are contained in the occult systems of antiquity that were called Mystery Babylon by the priests of Yahweh.

The Lucifer's rebellion had caused a change in the unfolding evolutionary plan. Mankind had been diverted from the predestined course and evolved a self-consciousness that precluded certain advances planned for him by the Divine Powers. The Luciferian influence was able to assert itself until another demonically inspired power introduced itself in the human evolutionary process. This influence arose from a wholly different source and it should not to be confused with that of Lucifer and his hosts. However, this confusion between the two sources of Evil has prevailed in most treatments of the problem of Evil.

Although Lucifer first made it possible for man to come under the sway of this other Evil influence, he is not the source of it. Lucifer initiated the descent into matter by his entrapments, by causing the human physical body to become denser than it would otherwise have become. Nevertheless, it was another influence that approach man in order to bring him completely into the material world of sense, thereby shutting him off entirely from the spiritual world. This second principality of Evil was the one that seduced mankind into the illusion that there is no other world than the world of material existence outspread before him.

An opponent quite different in character from Lucifer approached man and worked to ensnare him in sensory illusion. This Being is the Evil that casts the mist and darkness around man's faculties of perception that fools him into believing there is nothing beyond the physical world of the senses. Therefore, mankind falls into the error that it would not only be futile but foolish to seek to fathom the secrets behind the world of sense. Whilst under Lucifer's influence the sense-world became like a veil, under this Being's influence the physical world in its totality became like a dense palisade, closing off the spiritual world. At this critical phase of human evolution it was only the Sun Oracle Initiates of antiquity who were able, through the preparation they had undergone, to pierce this dense covering of the material, physical world. This second principality of Evil arose from a Being that is called Satan in the Bible, but who here is called Ahriman. Thus, arose the Dual Faces of Evil that oppose humanity and God and who work ceaselessly to subvert Creation. These are the Dark Gods who scheme to tear down Creation and erect an alternative in their own image; for they are the Dark Gods Lucifer and Ahriman who are truly the Overlords of Chaos.

"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not" John 1:5

"Someone will say: "Socrates, if you hold your tongue, you may go to a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you." Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the god, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious. And if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all those subjects concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me." Plato, Apology (Socrates' Defence)

Esoteric knowledge is only accessible to those who know the code and cannot be recognised by the ignorant or profane: before one can see one must first learn to see. Wisdom will only come to those who seek and endeavour to comprehend, however, this is not merely on exercise in assimilating facts mechanically, parrot-like, but it is a slow process of personal evolution. That is, the transformation of the personality.

Time in modern materialist science only relates to quantity (it has duration, length, etc) and never quality, yet in it's fullest sense it is an expression of both characteristics. The ancients understood this and that is why, for instance, in ancient Greece, the philosophers spoke of time that had quantity (chronos) and time that possessed a polar opposition, quality (kairos). Time therefore has both quantity and quality but in today's rational materialist world quantity has become the prime aspect of time: in the ancient world, it was the reverse; quality was the more important of the two aspects.

Behind manifest reality, there are a limited number of units or "primal ideas" that are used by the Divine Powers to create Form. That is, the necessary information required to allow matter to acquire Form: before Form there has to be the Idea, which is non-physical and existing apart from any conscious beings. Without the idea there cannot be Form: without the idea of a stone, a tangible stone can never manifest itself. Concepts and ideas are always in existence before their material representations. This prerequisite is represented in the Bible thus:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"

John 1:1

That is, the 'word' is in fact the Divine Intelligence the Divine Will, which is Divine Thought or the Idea of Creation. Moreover, these Divine Thoughts, or archetypal Ideas, are eternal and constant:

"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear"

Heb. 11:3

"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal"

2 Cor. 4:18

These archetypal Ideas are pure conceptual entities, but the world of pure concept is very difficult for man to appreciate and understand, so esoteric wisdom uses the concept of 'Primal Ideas' or "Primal Principles." The great intellect that was Plato (c.427-347) apprehended the true nature of the Cosmos using the newly instituted intellectual consciousness gifted to man by Divine Will. That is, using true individualised human thinking, but especially the use of pure logic based upon the inner working of the human mind. This period in human history was unique, for it was the time when humans began to develop individual and independent thought. Before this time, humans were not fully conscious of themselves as separate beings in Creation. Rather, each person perceived themselves as entwined with Nature and belonging entirely to the processes of the created world.

Man at this stage was still a mere component of the racial soul of the tribe, a blood-consciousness that precluded individuality. However, at the dawn of the Sumer and Egyptian civilisations, in the fourth millennium before Christ, a singular change occurred in the psyche when souls began to crystallise around a particular locus and individuality arose. The racial soul fragmented into component parts and men stopped being the puppets of the gods. Man became acutely aware of the physical world around him and thence began his active involvement in it. However, true individuation only occurred in the fifth century before Christ, and especially in the folksoul of the people, are called Ancient Greeks. A consequence of this particularisation of intelligence was the waning of the ancient faculties that produced the great mythologies of antiquity. This erosion of the reliance on ancient powers was facilitated by the development of the new faculty of reason. Thus, the fate of mankind that was formerly the exclusive concern of the gods passed into the hands of individual men. Men who were hitherto puppets of the gods were now masters of their own destiny, the captains of their soul.

In occult terms, this period in human history is represented by one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: the Red Horse. This symbolically represents universal thinking tinged with human blood for mankind at this time absorbed into his own soul what was formerly inspired from outside him by the will of the gods that ultimately is the Will of God. That is, the Universal Mind in the form of universal intelligence has become humanised into individual thinking. Consequently, the very fact of personal thought and self-possession hastened the possibility of human error. Here was the beginning of Will, of personal ambition and direction; what Nietzsche would describe, in the late nineteenth century, as the Will-to-Power. Plato was one of the last souls gifted with both types of consciousness that imbued his philosophy with greatness and transcendent wisdom.

That is why his philosophy of Ideas is misunderstood by rational minds that treat it as clever mentation rather than substantive truth concerning the nature of the Cosmos. Plato was preoccupied with the fundamental philosophical problem of elaborating a theory of the art of living and knowing arising from the newly instituted subjective thought and self-possession within the human psyche. Like his mentor Socrates, Plato was not only convinced of the ultimately harmonious structure of the universe, but he also constructed a comprehensive philosophical scheme to describe it. Plato's scheme showed the rational relationship between the soul, the state and the cosmos, which is the main theme of the great dialogues the Republic, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Timaeus and Philebus. These dialogues introduced into human understanding the famous Platonic Ideas, which are described by him as non-physical and existing apart from any conscious beings.

Contrasting the independent reality of Ideas is his theory of Forms. Rationalists who find it difficult to understand what these "Forms" are supposed to be wholly misunderstand this theory. Some even argue that Plato himself was not entirely convinced they exist. Two premises lead Plato to his view of the Forms: first, knowledge cannot come through the senses; and, secondly, we do nevertheless manage to know things, in mathematics, for example. Therefore concluded Plato, there is something beyond the world of the senses of which we have knowledge, that are therefore independent of sense experience. These Truths are, unlike empirical generalisations, universal and cannot be refuted by experience. Moreover, human knowledge of these Truths does not depend upon personal perspective, nor the state of an individual's sensory organs, nor the ambiguities of how things appear to our eyes.

Plato informs us that human sensory perception attends merely to a thing's superficial appearance not to its true nature and therefore worthless for comprehending the world. To understand truly a thing, or Creation, we must, insists Plato, use reason: the power of individual and independent thought. That is, the Universal Mind in the form of universal intelligence that has become humanised into individual thinking. In addition, Plato tells us, when we reason, we are, at least implicitly, dealing with Forms, and it is these Forms that are required by humans to comprehend the created material world. Forms therefore provide order and intelligence to a world that is in a state of constant flux, furnishing the pattern from which the world of sense derives its meaning. Forms are therefore the concrete representation of Ideas.

Ideas and Forms are the immutable archetypes of all temporal phenomena, yet only Ideas are completely real; for according to Plato, the created physical world possesses only relative or partial reality. Furthermore, the Idea of the Good is the supreme embodiment of Idea, whose placement and function in the realm of Ideas is analogous to that of the sun in the physical world. Plato assures us that man can move towards this perfect ideal. This is achieved by using a method of inquiry that constantly questions assumptions, thereby, explaining a particular idea in terms of a substantive one until the final ground of explanation is reached.

Plato's archetypal Ideas are pure conceptual entities, but the world of pure concept is very difficult for man to discern and understand so esoteric wisdom uses the concept of Primal Ideas or Primal Principles. In simple terms, this wisdom states that a Primal (Plato's Idea) runs vertically through all levels of manifest reality, that is, the world of Form. This is opposed to the scientific worldview, garnered by use of the Scientific Method, which experiences the universe laterally or in the single plane of reality. The numbers of planes of reality are limitless yet to the modern mind taught to think in logical, causal connections the concept of the vertical matrix seems strange and the associations arbitrary and nonsensical.

Matrix Showing an Example of Primal Principles on Different Levels of Reality

Primal Principles / Idea

Nature of Principle

Sky

Mineral

Plant

Animal

Body

Illnesses, Diseases

Locality, Home

Area

Social Category

Colour

Structure, Resistance, Time

Saturn

Lead, Calcium

Ivy, Thistle, Horsetail

Raven, Goat

Skeleton, Teeth

Hardening of the Arteries, Gallstones

Prison , Monastery , Cemetery

Mountains , Cold , Desert

Miner, Old Person

Black, Dark Blue

Energy, Impulse

Mars

Iron

Stinging Nettle

Predator, Rodent

Muscle, Arterial Blood

Inflammation, Injuries

Smithy, Battlefield

Volcanic Area

Soldier

Red

The belief systems of our ancestors were entirely based on the premise of 'truth by authority' that required the acceptance as true the views of various important authorities. Especially revered were the revelation in Scripture and the surviving works of Plato and Aristotle. The feature of the belief in such works of 'authority' is the acceptance of them as true not because of what was claimed but because of whom claimed it. Although the Scientific Method is manifestly an improvement on previous systems of acquiring knowledge about the physical world, it is wholly incapable of offering substantive understanding of the Cosmos. By abandoning the revealed word of God in Scripture and faith in the authority of men who knew better, shallow intellects used the Scientific Method to ridicule ancient belief systems that sustained generations of our ancestors. Science is the philosophy of the materialist and is vehemently championed by those who have renounced God.

In contrast to faith in authority, the Scientific Method emphasised the need for careful observation of the world that may initiate within the observer awareness that something requires explanation. A tentative guess or explanation is proposed as a possible solution called a hypothesis, and this can be confirmed or rejected by means of appropriate experiments. If it is confirmed by experiment, the hypothesis can qualify for the status of a theory that provides support for a more general, and predictive, scientific law. The utility of a theory is judged by its power of prediction: that is, its ability to predict with a high degree of confidence the likelihood that certain sorts of events will occur testifies to that theory being true.

However, the Theory of Scientific Method conceived by the Renaissance geniuses is based on inductive rather than deductive argument that ultimately undermines its claim to infallibility. An inductive argument assumes a generalisation that is probably true, based on a certain number of specific observations. The belief that the Scientific Method begins with observation moves to a more codified theory, producing a universal statement with predictive ability, then, if this universal statement appears to hold true, using it as a law of nature, is widely held: even among the scientific community.

This commonly held view of the Scientific Method, of an objective, superbly simple yet effective method is open to philosophical objections. Critics of the method argue that the conclusions drawn from the observed events go beyond what is given in the premises, which introduces uncertainty into the system, and therefore can only claim partial truth. That is, it would not be self-contradictory to affirm the premises and yet deny the truth of the conclusion. A deductive argument, on the other hand, begins with specific premises, and proceeds logically to a conclusion that necessarily follows from the premises: that is, the premises of a valid argument entail its conclusion

The Scientific Method is therefore open to objection by the philosopher in a number of ways, especially on the assumptions, or inferences, it makes concerning the nature of observation and the characteristics of the inductive argument procedure. Science is not the panacea for the human thirst for knowledge and meaning. These have to be gained elsewhere: this was the function of the mystery schools of antiquity and the task of great souls like Plato.

Time is therefore something more than mere quantity that is used by scientists to formulate their theories. It has quality as well, which was by far the most important aspect to the ancients. Time quality is a consequence of the Primal Principles, of the archetypal Ideas, expressing themselves in the Created world, the world of Form. That is, time creates or allows "openings" or "windows" for latent tendencies to act upon physical reality and manifest themselves, in various arrangements, as time-qualities. Thus, any given point in time is "ruled" by a particular mixture of Primal Principles. Every point in time has a particular time-quality and only events commensurate with that particular quality can occur. Thus: an ancient axiom:

"Every beginning carries its own end within itself."

The ancients knew this law and it was the reason for their preoccupation with commencing undertakings, journeys, wars, marriages or plans to erect a public building etc. at the right or auspicious moment determined by the quality of the moment. This is the whole meaning behind augury, the practice of the ancient Greeks and Romans to foretell future events by the observation and interpretation of the flights, chattering or singing of birds. The art of augury therefore concerns the taking and interpreting signs from nature in order to determine the will of the gods. The great Stoic philosopher Chrysippus (c. 280-c.206 BC) defined augury as the:

"... power to see, to understand, to interpret the signs that are given to men by the gods."

Augury is not the same as divination or prognostication. It does not seek from the gods' exact knowledge of future events, but merely inquires of them whether they approve or not of a planned undertaking. Another aspect of this time quality determination is haruspicy, which looks at the entrails of sacrificial animals to see if they had been acceptable to the gods. Thus augury concerns signs brought from the gods by birds, whilst haruspicy is signs discerned from freshly exposed animal entrails.